THE PARENTS of a teenage boy who nearly died when his kidneys shut down are suing holiday company First Choice after claiming he was infected with a bug at a four-star resort.

Bradie Perkins, 13, from Earl Shilton, has been on a dialysis machine for almost four weeks after being rushed to hospital a few days after returning home from the Holiday Village in Turkey.

He started being violently sick at the family’s home and suffered with diarrhoea and bleeding for almost a week before doctors realised he had contracted a strain of E.coli, which led to hemolytic-uremic syndrome - a disease which shuts down the body’s organs.

The family have now been told that Bradie, who has just been allowed home, could need a kidney transplant in the future.